People
Former VA CIO joins Grant Thornton
LaVerne Council will focus on digital strategy and innovation and be based in the D.C. area.
Emerging Tech
A High-School Student Designed an App That Could Save Farmers’ Lives
CalorApp aims to give farmworkers the immediate information they need to serve as their own inspectors
Emerging Tech
MIT Researchers Are Making Computers Out of Live Bacteria
In the future, you could be eating cancer-detecting robots in much the same way you take your morning vitamins.
Cybersecurity
Feds look to get creative about cyber hiring
Policymakers are keeping an open mind when it comes to improving the cybersecurity workforce.
Cybersecurity
OK, Say Someone Hacks into the US Power Grid. Then What?
A joint research project between the Department of Energy and a geographic analytics company is mapping just how far the repercussions could spread.
Cybersecurity
How to Keep Your Smartphone Secure During Holiday Travel
Because travel is already stressful enough.
Modernization
Beware of unicorns
Agencies want the benefits that new technologies can bring, but need a sharper focus on the mission impact -- and have grown wary of one-off solutions.
Digital Government
GSA Plans to Democratize Its Data
The agency's central platform will let employees dabble in data sets and analytics tools.
Digital Government
Senate Confirms GSA Leader
New Administrator Emily Webster Murphy has extensive experience in acquisition.
People
Army modernization command looks to avoid red tape
The Futures and Modernization Command, which is set to stand up in 2018, will have to resist the ways of old if it wants to be successful.
Policy
Poll: More than 60% of Voters Want to Avoid a Government Shutdown
Less than one in five think lawmakers should use a shutdown as political leverage.
Digital Government
Senate Intel chair doesn't plan legislative push on election cyber
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) dropped some hints about what the Senate Intelligence Committee will recommend to protect election infrastructure.
Digital Government
DHS Needs to Better Protect Employees’ Sensitive Info, IG Says
An audit found the agency falls short of federal privacy requirements
Digital Government
AT&T to join Census mobile device efforts
The Commerce Dept. says a successful contract award protest is moot after AT&T agreed to join CDW-G on the Census mobile device-as-a-service contract as a subcontractor.
Digital Government
How to Fight Work Bullshit (While Keeping Your Job and Your Dignity)
Politely questioning a peer is one thing but questioning a junior colleague or supervisor is almost impossible.
Modernization
One cloud to rule them all at DOD?
Acquisitions chief Ellen Lord hints that DOD is closing in on a solicitation for a single cloud to dramatically advance data interoperability at the Pentagon.
Acquisition
'Reinventing government,' 25 years later
In 1993, the government began shifting its focus to performance, but the question remains: Has the procurement system improved?
Digital Government
What NASA Can Teach Agencies About Making Employees Happy
The government’s most innovative agency increased employee satisfaction for the sixth year in a row.
Emerging Tech
Apple Teams Up With Stanford to Study Irregular Heart Rhythms
The project gathers data one heartbeat at a time.
Emerging Tech